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Country needs leader to stand up for jobs

Barry Barber

Asheboro

The news of former Goodyear employees losing their jobs is sad for Asheboro, and our prayers go out for these good people and their families.

President Obama has ought to defend our domestic tire industry against foreign competitors like China who exploit lax environmental regulations and profit from low-wage peasant labor. Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president, wrote in his 2010 book “No Apologies” that “President Obama’s action to defend American tire companies from foreign competition … is decidedly bad for the nation and our workers. Protectionism stifles productivity.” Who other than a multimillionaire vulture capitalist like Romney could possibly think that protection of American manufacturing jobs is bad for our nation?

Sorry, Mitt, but the people of Asheboro need a president who stands up for America and American manufacturing jobs, and that sure ain’t you.